Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest indoor sport event in the U.S. is the annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress. This week, on 36 brand-new alleys set up in the State Fair Grounds Coliseum at Columbus, Ohio, the vanguard of some 30,000 contestants start rolling-singly, in pairs and five-man teams-for $260,000 in prizes. They will roll on for 72 days & nights...
...trio.... I also liked "There'll Be Some Changes Made," sung as a blues.... Someone asked me how to get to the Savoy Cafe to hear the Frankie Newton band. Take an Egleston car from Park Street, get off at West Newton Street, walk a block north to Columbus Avenue and make for the green-lighted sign across the street. I envy you a most satisfying evening...
...moment of Columbus' greatest failure; for at last he could no longer conceal from himself that he had discovered not the wealth of Asia but a new world...
...Author. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (The Maritime History of Massachusetts) has been described as a Boston Brahmin with a bite. Outwardly he is a tweedy, dignified, humorous patrician who at 54 is highly enthusiastic about sailing, skiing, horseback riding, wanes, U.S. history before 1760 and Christopher Columbus. His office in Harvard's Widener Library is scattered with books, maps, charts and pictures about the discoverer. He also has a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which is autographed: "To my friend Sam Morison-Columbus...
...Professor Morison's favorite stories concerns the yessing habits of Latin American Indians, which, he believes, account for some of the strange misinformation Columbus picked up. One day in the Gulf of Darien, Morison and friends took on a San Bias Indian as a pilot. They asked him: "Can we carry three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live...